Originally Posted by
redietz
Note to blackhole: Regarding values of posts, anybody who bets serious money on sports and reads this particular post just got a very valuable lesson in reality, history, and how to gamble on sports. I'm not sure anyone else on any forum could have laid it out like this, done it succinctly, and done it with particular historical examples to boot.
Yes, I certainly got a very valuable lesson in sports betting reality.
Imagine trying to bank, feed, and supply a family’s daily and futures needs on what you just posted. Might not be too bad if you’re living single under the security of your moms roof in the basement. But trying to raise a family today with providing a home, medical, medicine, school, cloths. cars. Ins., marriage, retirement, vacations, and that list just got started; on the hopes that between two different opinions you come up with the right gambling decision sounds no different than a coin flip.
Just like Dan Druff blowing his own horn when he’s up a few units. That’s provided you’re betting exactly one unit per wager. How about when you love an opportunity and lay into it only to find out your wrong. What does that do to your book keeping.
Wonder what Kewlj has to say about this comment “If you're hoping to come up with some actual mathematical advantage and use that a springboard to profits, for the most part -- forget about it.”
Sorry Redietz, but this might explain why you’re where you are today. You might be able to trim the percentages in your favor, but it’s always still just a gamble. There are lots of smarter and safer ways to make a living. Gambling has to be on the bottom of that barrel except for a gifted few. Even that gifted few have to make it to retirement safely. Gambling should be treated like any other entertainment, and what you could afford to lose is all that matters.
I’m pretty sure if we were able to get an accurate estimate of successful gamblers living in casinos and sportsbooks, I would bet you have better odds of making a major league sports team, or winning a lottery for a buck.
God Speed gamblers.